Leftist Brazilian President Lula Signs Decree to Restrict Gun Ownership
Lula: Government “cannot allow gun arsenals to be in the people’s hands.”
Brazil’s left-wing President Lula da Silva has signed a decree imposing restrictions on gun ownership, reversing his predecessor Jair Bolsonaro’s policy of encouraging citizens to own firearms in the crime-ridden country.
“We will continue to fight for fewer weapons in our country. Only the police and the army must be well-armed,” President Lula said. He argued that the government “cannot allow gun arsenals to be in the people’s hands.”
Friday’s presidential decree is a part of a move by the Socialist Lula to undo the legacy of President Bolsonaro. According to a 2022 report, over a million Brazilians own guns. This is three times higher than the number of legal gun owners before Bolsonaro came to power in 2019.
This is what communists do.
It’s also why Biden welcomed him into the White House with open arms. https://t.co/mKxbb7FayJ
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) July 23, 2023
The Associated Press reported:
Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva signed a decree Friday tightening restrictions on civilian access to guns in Brazil, in a move aimed at reversing the pro-firearms policies of his right-wing predecessor Jair Bolsonaro.
The decree reduces the number of guns civilians can possess for personal safety from four to two, reduces the allowed ammunition for each gun from 200 rounds to 50 and requires documentation proving the need to hold the weapons.
It also bars civilians from owning 9 mm pistols, restricting them to members of the police and military.
“It’s one thing for the regular citizen to have a gun at home for his protection, as a guarantee, because some people think this is safety. Let them have it. But we cannot allow gun arsenals to be in the people’s hands,” Lula said Friday during a signing ceremony.
During Bolsonaro’s presidency from 2019 through 2022, the former president had said “good citizens” should be entitled to protect their families and their assets, and loosened rules on the possession of guns and ammunition. Though Brazil has no constitutional right to bear arms, Bolsonaro argued that “an armed populace will never be enslaved.”
The government’s “intention is to control the amount of weaponry and ammunition accessible to civilians and limit the procurement of firearms by hunters, shooters, and collectors,” the newspaper Rio Times reported Saturday.
A similar trend is being seen in the Western countries as well. Germany, which already has one of the Europe’s strictest gun laws, wants to further restrict gun ownership as the country reels under surging migrant crime.
Lula, who took office last year after narrowly winning the election, is a darling of the American left. Former U.S. President Barack Obama once hailed Lula as “the most popular president on Earth.” President Joe Biden, who continues to snub Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu, a key U.S. ally, welcomed the Brazilian leader in the White House with open arms.
Socialist Lula has been one of the leading political backers of Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez and Cuba’s long-time communist tyrant Fidel Castro.
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He argued that the government “cannot allow gun arsenals to be in the people’s hands.” Spoken like a true Democrat.
By the way the Massachusetts’s legislature has a bill being forwarded to require every “feeding device” be registered with the state. Every clip and magazine. They love only two things better than registration…. those are banning and confiscation.
He’s following the world fascism movement, and the American government is leading it:
How Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders Helped Lula Win:
https://prospect.org/world/how-joe-biden-and-bernie-sanders-helped-lula-win/
There are multitudes of magazines in the US. The various times policies have attempted to restrict mags have resulted in more purchases and manufacturing. You might as well try to eliminate grains of sand on the beach.
He didn’t win
He cheated with the help of our very own CIA amd the global agenda thugs
Indeed. Bolsonaro was Brazil’s Trump. Lula had the very finest Democratic election fraud “advisors” flown in to organize his campaign.
They got beta test practice in Ukraine then took their show on the road.
Another step toward Lula’s goal: a one-party state.
Freedom of speech is largely gone already.
It has to be a totalitarian’s first move.
Lula is true to form. I predict a forming black market in Brazil to supply guns and ammo to citizens who know what is going to happen to them if disarmed. Same elsewhere in SA and even in Germany and elsewhere.
Re: The decree reduces the number of guns civilians can possess for personal safety from four to two, reduces the allowed ammunition for each gun from 200 rounds to 50 and requires documentation proving the need to hold the weapons.
No normal person will be allowed guns.
The commies have determined only the “More Equal Animals” (Example: Bill Gates) will be allowed guns.
Perhaps, there will be a run-on knives.
Ask the Filipinos. They’ve made a national skill of it.
A New York Legislative proposal I heard of allowing three times the amount of ammo per quarter as the one magazine you are allowed to own. So if you have a 1911, you can possess 27 cartridges every 3 months.
Need? What “need”? As I write this, I have no immediate need for the Bill of Rights… no one is stopping me from writing, no soldiers needing unreimbursed housing, no search, no “takngs”…. so the argument is that the Bill of Rights can be eliminated because it is not needed.
Ah….I may have missed things… but where is Milhouse???
And… here. we. go…
“This is a People’s Republic — we cannot allow gun arsenals to be in the people’s hands!”
Reminds me of a double-take sign we saw on the door into the Indian-treaty hot spring facility in Thermopolis WY:
NO SOAP ALLOWED. THIS IS A HEALTH FACILITY.
“Bolsonaro argued that “an armed populace will never be enslaved.”
And it is now entirely apparent that he was wrong. That right is necessary but not sufficient. You also need a populace with the courage to use those arms when it is called for. Brazil obviously doesn’t have that, and neither do we.
https://foundationforfreedomonline.com/
Benz shows how US NGOs networked with big tech to lockdown Brazilian internet communications.
Mike Benz at twitter is anti-woke and as counter-revolutionary as they come.
” counter-revolutionary”
That is the term we conservatives need to adopt and act on.
Lula, and his ilk, know the mathematics very well:
How many slaves would there have been in the U.S. from 1781 to 1864 if a certain race was afforded their second amendment privileges of citizenship?
How many armed Jews can fit in a German boxcar?
Show your work.
Now they’re going to make the pedophile-in-chief jealous. Look for the communists here to try it next.
Let them try.
“But we cannot allow gun arsenals to be in the people’s hands,” Lula said Friday during a signing ceremony.
Why not?
Disarming the population is the number one goal of every dictator in history. Then the mandates start coming. No free press. No religion. No political opposition. No right to vote.